MIT's green initiatives

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Voluntary green initiatives included in the MIT Environmental Management System are:

A green goods procurement program under which, in one year (2000), MIT increased the use of recycled paper on campus from less than 5 percent to 64 percent and to more than 90 percent in MIT's central CopyTech location and increased the total use of "green products" by 21 percent.

A green building design guidelines initiative, under which MIT is developing long-term goals to make its buildings and campus more environmentally sustainable, as well as guidelines for designers and engineers to achieve these goals.

Support of the EPA's Clean Charles 2005 Initiative, including purchasing a boat and devoting a graduate student to the Initiative, and by sponsoring the Clean Charles Coalition with other institutions and corporations.

The use of 100 percent recycled paper starting in May to replace the watermarked bond that MIT departments use for letterhead, envelopes and other official business papers.

A water conservation project that will reduce water use at MIT by 32 million gallons a year.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on April 25, 2001.